The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-04-14

imagine that many would say that
such an observation did not become
his mouth, and that it was the bust
ness of the Ministers of the Crown
to dissipate that horror. In the old
days, when there was famine in
Turkey, they flung the Grand Viz
ier's head into the street. Laugh-
ter.) In the present critical state
of affairs, which were disgraceful to
law and disgraceful to the Constitu-
ton, some Impotence towards Min.
listers of the Crown must be expect
ed. But they must remember that
they were Ministers not of a despo-
tic but of constitutional State.
They were bound to walk strictly
within the limits of the law, and il
that law was not suitable to the
circumstances of the case, they were
not the authority by which it could
be altered. In Ireland the machinery
of social government has broken
down in one essential point. The
great object of society was that
wrongs should be redressed and
crimes punished. (Cheers.) But
that could only be done by the
action of the courts of law, and the
action of the courts of law in Ire
land had broken down because Irish
jurymen, or sufficient number of
them, sympathized with crime and
broke their oaths in order that it
might pass unpunished. (Cheers.)
Trial by jury had broken down in
Ireland. The whole machine worked
well except one essential wheel.
That wheel refused to move, and
before society could be restored to
its healthy condition, that wheel
must either be refitted or dispensed
with. cloud cheers.) But then
they would say here was case for
alteration, and why was the altera-
ton not made? Attention has been
called to the disgraceful scenes
enacted nightly in the neighborhood
of Westminster Hall. They knew
that the machinery for legislation
was impeded by an obstacle which
their fathers knew not, and if it had
existed earlier, assuredly Parliament
would never have acquired the repu-
tation it had obtained in the world.
(Cheers.) If obstruction merely
hindered Legislation it might be
borne, but the essential powers Of
the Executive Government by which
society was kept together were
placed in danger, and until the
House of Commons had devised
! measures to meet the new dangers
it was impossible to restore the
efficiency of the social machine now
arrested in Ireland, or give back
that confidence without which indus.
try could not act. He was not using
the language of despair or hopeless
ness. 1t appeared to him that the
people of this country were smitter
with the terror of an inevitable fate
which it was useless to resist, and
that they must bow to the inevitable
That was belief by which nations
were undone. Evil was never in
evitable if we had the courage L
struggle against it. (Cheers.) Th'
feeling arose from an idea that i
was the principle of nationality thai
was being resisted, and that this
principle had achieved mapy tri
umphs during the present century
But even if it were q question o
nationality he would say the duty o
this country was not altered. w
had to provide for our own security
We could not plant hostile com
munity on our flank. But he denie,
that the principle of nationality hat
anything to do with it, and the proc
would suggest itself to those wh'
studied the movements Of the Iris
party, When addressing educate'
audiences In this country tho leader
used the largon Of nationality an
nations struggling to be free. /
Ireland, among their own people
however, they appealed to motive
far more common and less herolt
TO teach the debtor how no sha
Not pay his creditOrs-that wa
their heroic gospel. (Hear, heal
and laughter.) Looking abroad
those peosle who had achieved the
liberty during recent years, the
, would find that Poland, Greco,
Italy, and the Tyrol, Belgium {
any other country that had achieve
its liberty and showed the quallti'
! necessary to enable nation to c
, alone, had never carried on the
! agitation by dealing in wholesa
system of fraudulent bankruptc.
, (Cheers.) They would have d
!. spised such aids, and they wou
' never have acted in manner inco